Are you a portfolio GP with too many roles? Are spending every evening pouring over emails or your diary trying to keep up with it all?

The scenario... Asha, 32, has just come away from an interview having being offered a salaried post. The job seems almost too good to be true: reasonable hours, BMA contract, a great sessional rate....

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Talk to any career locum and they’ll tell you that once in a while, they had trouble getting paid.

Right now, the newly qualified GPs are launching themselves into their careers. Many  will kick off doing 9 or even 10 clinical sessions, believing that that’s what a GP does full time.

We ask the question, ‘can you be a locum forever?’

This is a common question when it comes to getting started and there are a variety of ways to launch yourself into a GP locum career.

Guest posting by Dr Janaka Malwatta in Brisbane